Yahoo Reportedly Attracting Potential Buyers

Yahoo is reportedly attracting interest from potential buyers as the once high-flying Internet portal company tries to reverse its flagging fortunes.

A number of potential suitors, including private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, have contacted Yahoo about acquiring all or parts of the company, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal.

This comes little more than a week after Carol Bartz was ousted as CEO after she failed to turn the company around during her nearly three-year term. Bartz's firing came after company directors studied Yahoo's assets and performance, and concluded the company wasn't performing as well as it could. The board came to the conclusion that a change in top management was needed to turn things around.

CFO Tim Morse is serving as interim CEO while the company searches for a replacement for Bartz.

Yahoo also said at the time that it had formed an executive leadership council to conduct "a comprehensive strategic review" of the company's options "for future growth." Although the company did not explicitly say so, published stories quoted sources as saying that Yahoo was open to being acquired.

While The Wall Street Journal indicated that a number of potential buyers had contacted Yahoo, Silver Lake Partners was the only one specifically named in the story. The article also said that potential buyers might not pursue an acquisition unless the company sells its Asia holdings, including a 40-percent stake in China-based Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and a 35-percent stake in Yahoo Japan.

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